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I'm using the Fx loop of the preamp. Current config is: Instrument goes into Microbass 3. Effects are daisy-chained out of the Microbass 3's FX Send and back into its FX Return. Microbass 3 output goes to amp. The FX loop sequence is: Microbass Fx Send -> Sound generators: Octabass -> Mosaic -> Octamizer -> Distortion: VT Bass -> Agro -> Soul Food -> Sound shapers: Phase 90 -> Chorus -> Microbass Fx Return I'm comparing the 3x Octave pedals and similarly the 3x distortion ones (I'd never have the same types on at the same time).

Haha - most amusing! 🙂 It's in a chain of pedals which come out of the Fx loop of an EBS Microbass 3. My test will be to put something else in its place and see if that has a similar (ahem) effect. Yes, I'm thinking along those lines. I'm also going to try putting an MXR Noise Clamp around the Fx loop (though it too is buffered), to see if that cancels it out. It does use up a pedal space, though.

There is that, but small steps...

If I had wall space to hang things on, I'd have it as a wall-hanger.

My Old Man's a Dustman?

I do quite like it; have to give it a bit more of a workout.

Maybe that's what it is - a tension-adjustable broad-position thumb rest. Inspired! 🙂

Annoyingly, I noticed that the SansAmp VT Bass pedal seems to affect the sound even when it's off. Whilst I could put in a bypass switcher to take it out of circuit, that's then using up more space, so it looks like it's "no" for that one.

Just a couple of toothpicks should do the job.

Good!

I’ve rejigged my pedalboard and it’s got my VT Bass, Agro, and Soul Food on it. Plus the Microbass 3’s distortion channel.

I didn’t say you could use the plec! 🙂

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Layer-Bass-Custom-innovative-construction-Avant-Garde-body/233953855931

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Jazz-Bass-Replica-Lee-Rush/393233394772

"Well known", right... Yep - I'm looking, but not sure what I'm seeing...

There's no describing that!

didn't know I was arguing,,, big willy,,, "Beat It" was about the closest jacko got to metal.

I could never like Jaco, because he didn't play metal!

All?

Crikey - a case of a beraved wallet. However, we've now got another fake Fender in the wild.

On the prog side, though known as a pick player, Chris Squire had a percussive technique where he'd hit the note a second time with the edge of his thumb. Not exactly funkaholic, but a sideline to the development.

It's difficult to tell if Fred Thomas played thumb/slap back in the day, but he certainly did later on.

Nah - Proggers were post- hippies. Certainly jazz-rock (Bruford, Stanley Clark, Weather Report, Colosseum II, Chic Corea, Alphonso Johnson) was pretty far from being hippy stuff and some of it spanned into funk & disco.

That was pretty cool, wasn't it!

Aye - maybe omitted in the OP, but actually is at least as relevant as the guitar link there; based on that, I'd say that the funkers merely reinterpreted what already existed. Since the guitar angle is allowed, though, it could simply be inferred to be interpretations of Flamenco guitar playing.